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Naming Conventions
Finished filling in all the terminology holes I'd noted in Field of Stars, and decided to just go the easy route for names. Prince Placeholder is now named Prince Justin. His brother, with whom he is contending over the throne of their recently deceased murdered father, is Prince Malcolm. Anyone who can tell which one I'm rooting for based on the names alone gets a cookie.
Their names are, admittedly, somewhat more pedestrian than the major characters in the first book, but I have Max and Owen and Lily and Kitty (real name Melinda) and a few far more background characters with real-world names too in Queen's Choice, so maybe it works. And Karje is the next kingdom over, anyway. (Of the other Karjeans, Arion and William Tanner are complex chains of punnish associations that amuse me; Pemberley gets his name from Pride and Prejudice [as, incidentally, do most of Kitty's sisters], Flora is named for her alchemy hobby, Stasia and Tasha are truncated real-world names, and Jessalind... well, anyone who guesses who I derived her name from gets not a cookie, but a whole cake.)
Their names are, admittedly, somewhat more pedestrian than the major characters in the first book, but I have Max and Owen and Lily and Kitty (real name Melinda) and a few far more background characters with real-world names too in Queen's Choice, so maybe it works. And Karje is the next kingdom over, anyway. (Of the other Karjeans, Arion and William Tanner are complex chains of punnish associations that amuse me; Pemberley gets his name from Pride and Prejudice [as, incidentally, do most of Kitty's sisters], Flora is named for her alchemy hobby, Stasia and Tasha are truncated real-world names, and Jessalind... well, anyone who guesses who I derived her name from gets not a cookie, but a whole cake.)